Quotes with manliness

  • History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

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  • Amos Bronson Alcott First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith In all the silent manliness of grief.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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